When using a substance makes normal activities such as driving result in harmful accidents, this is called

Acute drug effects are those that

Which is an example of chronic physiological toxicity?

The Drug Abuse Warning Network

DAWN - collects data on drug-related emergency room visits from hospital emergency departments in major metropolitan areas around the country. For each drug or drug type, staff members (hospital) add up the number of visits associated with that particular drug and give the info to DAWN.

Those who have received a "personality disorder" diagnosis, such as antisocial personality disorder

Which of the following drugs is most accepted as contributing to crimes and violence?

The period between 1890 and 1920 in the U.S. was characterized by reformism, in that many laws were passed that restricted various industries and activities in an effort to improve society. The same period was characterized by widespread

In the early 1900s in the U.S., fears about opium and cocaine were closely linked to

The 1906 U.S. law that prohibited interstate commerce in adulterated or misbranded foods and drugs was called the

The Harrison Act of 1914

"An act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes." * Basically it's a law that regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates." *

Which of these is given its own classification category, due to its complex effects at different doses?

Nonspecific effects of taking a drug are those that do not depend on its chemical activity. They are also referred to as

When neither the person taking the drug nor the person evaluating the effects of the drug knows which people are getting the experimental drug and which people are getting the placebo, this procedure is referred to as a(n)